On June 14, 2023, Noam Maeir, PhD candidate in Comparative Religion and Digital Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, presented “Excerpting Practices in Syriac Literary Culture of Late Antiquity: A Computational Analysis of the British Library’s Digitized Catalog of Syriac Manuscripts”, a presentation on his quantitative analyses of Syriac excerpting practices utilizing data from Syriaca.org’s in-progress “The Digital Wright: A Database of Syriac Manuscripts in the British Library”. A summary of Noam’s presentation follows.
read moreAlexys Ahn (’24), a junior Classical and Mediterranean Studies major at Vanderbilt University, has been named as a Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles for the summer of 2023. Alexys will work alongside staff to publish and maintain the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts…
read moreSyriaca.org is pleased to announce a new grant of $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will enable Texas A&M University, Vanderbilt University, and Marquette University to partner to continue preserving the history of Syriac culture in the Middle East. “Linking Texts and Data from the Medieval…
read moreDear Colleagues, Syriaca.org is gathering information on how to best meet the needs of those who use our site. We recently benefited from an anonymous survey (thank you to those who participated!). We are now looking for volunteers to give detailed input through a live interview over Zoom. If you…
read moreSyriaca.org is gathering information on how to best meet the needs of those who use our site. The first phase of our research involves a user survey: https://forms.gle/XgN7o1Kod2XsiqVZ7 Please let us know about yourself and how you use Syriaca.org. Your responses will remain anonymous, and this survey will NOT save…
read moreDaniel L. Schwartz (Director of Syriaca.org), Nathan P. Gibson (Editor, A New Handbook of Syriac Literature) have recently published an essay with Katayoun Torabi: “Modeling a Born-Digital Factoid Prosopography using the TEI and Linked Data”, Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative [Online], Rolling Issue, Online since 13 February 2021. Full text…
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